page_title: Fairfax Field
hierarchical_section_title: Fairfax Field
caption_attribution_description: English: Fairfax Field KS 1950
context_page_description: Fairfax Field was a wartime facility of the United States Army Air Forces and later, the United States Air Force.
  The installation was north of Kansas City, Kansas. Used as a pre-war Naval Air Station, the United States Army Air Forces leased the municipal airfield and built an Air Force Plant and modification center for North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber production. Military use of the site continued as late as 1957 by the Strategic Air Command's 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group for bombing practice.
context_section_description: Fairfax Field was a wartime (WWII) facility of the United States Army Air Forces and later, the United States Air Force. 
  The installation was north of Kansas City, Kansas.  Used as a pre-war Naval Air Station, the United States Army Air Forces leased the municipal airfield and built an Air Force Plant and modification center for North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber production.  Military use of the site continued as late as 1957 by the Strategic Air Command's 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group for bombing practice.
caption: Northward view of the air base in World War II after the modification center was built along the south taxiway.
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